The Azure Government team continually strives to bring the latest Azure platform features to Azure Government. In this post I highlight networking features that have recently been made generally available in Azure Government. Network Watcher Network Watcher is a regional service that enables you to monitor and diagnose conditions at a network scenario level in,…

If you hit issues using the Gallery runbooks (like StopAzureV2Vm seen below), you may need to add a value to the environment name. Just like when connecting to Azure Government via Azure PowerShell or CLI, you need to specify the environment name. Add the value per the screenshot below and you should be fine!

Amazon Web Services EC2 is a well-known Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform, and several organizations use EC2 to host various RDBMS platforms, including Microsoft SQL Server. Using an IaaS platform in the cloud provides certain advantages, such as ease of application migration, full control of software running in the VM, and simplified integration with…

Microsoft’s Imagine Cup is a global competition that offers up to USD100,000 and challenges student developers to create cloud-based solutions that will change the world. To empower Imagine Cup competitors with more opportunities to build their cloud development skills, Microsoft launched the Big Idea Challenge and asked competitors to pitch their Imagine Cup ideas and…

As a team, from Visual Studio App Center engineers to product managers, designers, and QA, our goal is simple: build an amazing product for developers. We decided early on that to help our team deliver on our goal, we’d create a set of values that would guide our decisions and keep us on the right…

Final Update: Wednesday, February 21st 2018 13:20 UTC We’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal as of February 21st, 13:13 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on February 21st, 2:30 UTC and that during the 11 hours and 13 minutes that it took to resolve the issue. A subset of Customers may…